Gorger

  Level 3

  Health 5

  Endless Appetite: The Gorger gains mass, and power the more biomass it consumes.

  29/30 Gorgers slain.

  "Careful." Sora warned. "He's much stronger than he was before."

  "We'll take him together." Rex said, charging forward. He crushed cars and people underfoot as carelessly as the monsters, safe in the knowledge they'd all be reborn at the end of this fight.

  Clay hesitantly followed suit and charged in behind the tiger.

  Rex lunged forward to sink his fangs into the back of the creature, but with surprising speed it spun around and back fisted 01 as it went in for the attack. The impact was immense enough that the shockwave broke the glass on the nearest skyscraper. Shards of glass rained down on the streets below. 01's lion shaped head and battered away from it's neck. It tore away with a horrifying screech of metal as the head cannonballed into a building and blew out the other side.

  "Shit!" Clay screamed as he saw his companion get beheaded.

  The lion's body collapsed to the ground.

  "I'm okay." Rex groaned. His piloting pod was awash with red warning lights and sparks.

  01's Health 1/10 (Damage Roll 2 4 4 7 10 10)

  "I actually think I can still move this thing."

  "Don't you dare." Sora ordered. "That was a mercy, just stay down and let the other two handle it. Your pride will recover, but you lose the level up if you die." To Sora, Rex was a flare of aggression. She had no doubt that if he'd been personally decapitated his body would have kept moving just to spite the person. He did not accept defeat easily.

  "I've got it!" Clay moved in and struck at the gorger.

  Gorger Health 4/5

  His sword easily sunk into the flesh of the monster and left a gouge deep into it's flesh.

  It smacked the sword away with it's meaty fist and threw a haymaker into the head of 06. The Guardian reeled backwards from the impact.

  06's Health 5/10 (Damage Roll 1 3 3 7 10 10)

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  The two were now stuck in a death spiral and traded two more blows.

  Gorger's Health 3/5

  01's Health 3/10

  Gorger's Health 2/5

  01's Health 1/10

  It was amazing, technology and godlike power beyond the reckoning of mortals and the great struggle for man kind was reduced to a slug fest.

  One that Clay lost.

  That last hit ripped his sword arm right out of the socket. The great metal structure fell to the earth, still clutching it's weapon. Clay reeled back, survival instinct suddenly flaring to life. "Oh shit, oh shit." A bridge caught the back of 01's knees, and he stumbled backwards onto his back. The metal of his machine groaned in righteous protest.

  "Bunny!" Sora screamed, now noticing that the young woman was watching the fight go down, frozen in place.

  The beast turned to her two, the last standing foe.

  "Don't come at me!" Bunny gasped, back pedaling.

  "Shoot it!" Sora commanded.

  "Why's it coming after me?" Bunny asked desperately. Panic, confusion, betrayal all swirled around the girl.

  "Shoot it!"

  She didn't , and the beast reeled it's fist back delivering a gut punch to Lucifer, strong enough to pick the mech up off of it's feet.

  Lucifer's Health 5/10 ( Damage Roll: 2 7 7 7 8 8)

  Sora took aim. The battle algorithms were just not melding with this girl's mind. They should have kept her calmed and focused, but the low compatability between her and the mech meant she was feel every bit of her animal dread even inside the metal shell. They'd have to work on that.

  The light began to gather at the business end of her laser catapult, this thing had killed bigger gorgers than him.

  Then suddenly The Gorger was seized on either side by Rex and Clay. The headless hulk of 01 sunk it's teeth into the elbow of the lumbering giant, and pulled all it's weight down. He now had the weight of that metal predator weighing on his arm. Clay did the same from the other side With only one arm he wrapped it around his foe and threw himself on the ground. The slobbering hungring titan took slow step after slow step towards Bunny, straining to get it's arms free.

  "Shoot it you clutz!" Rex screamed out.

  Bunny screamed and held her hand up. "DIE!" She roared.

  Gorger's Health 1/5

  Lucifer's Health 6/10

  As Lucifer drained life from the gorger the force of that life invigorated the micromachines withing The Guardain. They set to work reparring cracks, and reparing parts broken in that cataclysmic punch.

  The Gorger lunged forward to attack Bunny again, but was held in place by the two nearly dead guardians. It's roared in imputent rage, and struggled so hard against the weight of the mechs it ripped it's own arms off. Rex and Clay each fell to the ground with thunderous weight. Each hold a writhing alien arm for all their troubles. The now armless Gorger screamed and ran towards Lucifer, mouth open, teeth shining, drool leaking.

  "Die!" Bunny screamed again, and drained the last of the life from the Gorger. It's body shriveled before their eyes, and it's moment sent it stumbling forward, before falling lamely at her feet.

  30/30 Gorgers Defeated.

  Wave Cleared!

  There was silence all throughout the city, as that great slab of meet lay dying on the street.

  "We did it?" Clay moaned gratefully.

  "Was there ever any doubt?" Rex said with the confidence of a man who still had his head.

  Sora could only smile and holster her Laser Catapult.

  Moments like that.

  "Good work, we couldn't have won without all of you working as a team. I'm impressed."|

  "Earth lives another day." Bunny looked down at her mechanical hands. "I'll do better next time."

  "We all will." Clay agreed. "Now that we know how this works, I'd say this apocalypse's days are numbered."

  Sora drifted through the sky, mind already worrying about the next problem and the next. "Mene mene tekel upharsin."